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Year 33, No. 44
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
John Sebastian Inaugurates Pocono Folk Festival
July 25 – July 31, 2018
PCOM Honors Cathy Hatcher as Innovative Teacher of the Year
ocono native and longtime Nashville producer and artist manager, Jim Della Croce has announced from his headquarters at Pathfinder Management in Delaware Water Gap, that John Sebastian will headline the inaugural Pocono Folk Festival on
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John Sebastian will headline the inaugural Pocono Folk Festival on September 15. www.johnbsebastian.com
Havertown Native Serves in AwardWinning Squadron Page 8
UDPAC Presents “42nd Street” Page 12
September 15. The concert will celebrate the summer’s-end and beginning of the fall season in the Poconos with an all-day concert to be held on the stage and grounds of the Historic Castle Inn located at 20 Delaware Avenue, Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327. The rain or shine event begins at 11 a.m. and closes at 10:30 p.m. and will feature folk, classic rock, bluegrass, Americana, and tributes to The Band and The Grateful Dead. Tickets are festival seating/general admission for $39.50 in advance and $49.50 at the gate day of show. Tickets can be purchased at www.poconofolkfestival.com or at the box office on show day. “It is only appropriate that we launch this historic event with a music icon who is no stranger to the Poconos or the Catskills, John Sebastian. He graduated from Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ (just 15 miles east of the Delaware Water Gap) in the early 60s, and closed the decade up-river in Bethel, NY at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. It was there that he made history performing an impromptu set before 400,000 people! We’re truly humbled and See John Sebastian to Headline Pocono Folk Festival page 4
Cathy Hatcher, PhD, associate professor, neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology, has been named Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Innovative Teacher of the Year. athy Hatcher, PhD, associate professor, neuroscience, physiology and pharmacology, has been named Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Innovative Teacher of the Year. Now in its fourth year, the award honors those who exhibit original and creative thinking, inside the lab and the classroom. Dr. Hatcher leads the Cardio-Renal-Pulmonary Medicine (CRP) course in the osteopathic medicine program, and uses an active learning model to engage her students with techniques such as audience response, patient simulations, morning report sessions, and integration of clinical and basic sciences. Dr. Hatcher implemented the new learning strategies after becoming director of the CRP course in 2015.
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See PCOM Honors Dr. Cathy Hatcher page 11
Bug Fest Celebrates the Amazing Diversity of Insects Healthy Living Page 11
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